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http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/12/classnotes-december-2013-issue/#commentsThu, 19 Dec 2013 18:13:15 +0000Amanda Piercehttp://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=23319We do our best to get most of the news you submit to us onto the CCAD News Blog, but because there are more than 10,000 of you making news all over the world, not everything can make it into the blog. We’re glad to have another venue where we can share everything with you—this newsletter’s classnotes.

You can submit classnotes via the easy-to-use form on the alumni landing page. We only post career-related successes, awards, exhibitions, and publications, but we’d also love to know when you move, get married, or have children—just use that same form.

Now, without further ado, your classnotes from September, October, and November.

Jerry McDaniel ’57 had a solo exhibition at the Valley Performing Arts Center at California State University in Northridge, CA.

Georgia Tangi ’67 was hired as a consultant to plan, research, and steer the theme and content of an exhibition at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center. Read more here.

Tim Rietenbach ’77 was featured in exhibitions at OSU’s Urban Art Space, the Columbus Cultural Arts Center, and the Farmer Family Gallery at OSU Lima. Read more here,here, and here.

Stewart McKissick ’79 designed and created the DVD cover art for the re-release of 1939 animated feature film Gulliver’s Travels. Read more here.

John Jude Palencar ’80 had his painting accepted into a juried exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art. Read more here.

Paul Conley ’82 was selected to serve as a judge for the International Academy of Visual Art’s Web3 Awards, judging 75 websites from around the world.

Mike Olenick ’00 and Pamela Theodotou ’13 were named finalists for the 2013 Media Arts Fellowship presented by the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Columbus Film Council. Read more here.

Joe Jobst ’01 was the lead visual effects artist for newly released video game Grand Theft Auto V. Read more here.

Lara Kastner ’01 photographed Alinea Cookbook.

Michael McAteer ’01 will receive a master’s degree in sociology in December from Marshall University in Huntington, WV. He also has a master’s degree in journalism and mass communications from Marshall University. Read more about McAteer on his blog.

Josh Foy ’02 was awarded best of show at the Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition. Read more here.

Manjari Sharma ’04 had her photos featured on CNN’s photography blog and in a solo exhibition in New York. Read more here and here.

Keli Catalano ’05 received an honorary award for the philanthropic efforts of her greeting card business, Colette Paperie.

Sean Conner ’05, Nate Reese ’05, Chris Meister ’06, Chris Schoenman ’08, and Scott Ulliman ’10 worked on special effects for a music video by Pearl Jam. Read more here.

Christine D’Epiro Abbott ’05 had a solo exhibition at the Cultural Arts Center in Columbus, OH. Read more here.

The freelance studio of Holly Koskinen ’05, KOSKINEN CREATIVE, won its third American Graphic Design Award. Koskinen is now the art director at Cult Marketing and will be a judge at the 2014 Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio (AICUO) Art Awards Scholarship competition.

Nate Reese ’05 and Chavilah Bennett ’12 worked on a recruitment video for CCAD. Read more and see the video here.

Ben Neidenthal ’06 presented his animated film A Sphere in Boxland at the 61st Columbus International Film and Video Festival. Read more here.

Andrew Mark ’07 and Scott Ulliman ’10 worked on special effects for a music video featuring Travie McCoy and Jason Mraz. Read more here.

Nicki Strouss ’08 was included an Ohio Art League exhibition. Read more here.

Rachel Lauren ’10 started Ironwood Wolves, an organization that raises awareness about wolves through art. Read more here.

John Malta ’10 had illustrations published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. His work was also featured in several exhibitions around the country. Read more here and here.

Raymond Thimmes ’11 is working at Scholastic Publishing in New York City as web producer for classroom magazines. Read more on his website.

Annica Damico ’12 was featured in an exhibition at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center. Read more here.

“The Boy Who Slept in the Sky,” written by Sulochana Dissanayake and illustrated by Isuri Dayaratne.

Illustration alumna Isuri Dayaratne (CCAD 2012) has provided whimsical illustrations for the pages of The Boy Who Slept in the Sky, a children’s picture book published in October.

Written by Sulochana Dissanayake, the tale chronicles the faraway adventures of a little girl who meets a boy in the sky.

This is the first English children’s book Dayaratne has illustrated; her other works include a Sinhalese children’s book for the nonprofit organization Room to Read and a children’s activity book for Auzou Publishing (France), both due to come out in early 2014.

Dayaratne currently works as a full-time freelance illustrator in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where she recently finished illustrating and designing a training publication for the International Labour Organization.